I continue to go through all the research I collected a number of years ago. At the Indiana Historical Society Library, Indianapolis, IN (287.092, K46w) I copied the first couple of pages of Conflicts and Triumphs of an Itinerant by T.D. Walker. It is about a John Kiger. It begins, "From robust, healthy Virginia stock has come to us this man." In summary: --Christopher Kiger, emigrated from Germany in 1750. ---His son, Anthony Kiger, born 9 Mar 1754 on the Schuylkill River, 5 miles from Reading, PA Anthony to Virginia some years later. ---Anthony's second wife was Rachel Proctor, b. 29 Aug 1769 in Shenandoah Co., VA. She was 15 years younger than Anthony. ---Anthony was a soldier in Revolutionary War. At the close of the war, he sold his Lancaster, PA land (pd. in Continental currency) ---Anthony died 3 Apr 1824. (Thrown from a horse.) Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, near Rushville. ---Anthony's son, John Kiger (spelled Giger by the Germans) was born Mar 1806 in Augusta Co., VA --Family moved to Hardy Co. in a few years then some years later to Pendleton, an adjoining county, further up the Potomac River. ---1823 family moved to the village of Rushville, OH on the East side of Rush Creek. (I did not find it on a modern map.) ---Fall of 1824 to a farm near Marysville, Union Co., OH ---John at age 19 went to Urbana to apprentice in blacksmithing Up to now, I have not been able to follow all of the ancestral lines referred to on this list. I assume this Christian>Anthony>John fits somewhere. (It might even be mine) I didn't read the rest of the book, but if it fits your line, it might be interesting. The book was published in 1891 and it appears that the author knew of John personally. Dorothy Vekasi